I have a love/hate relationship with anime. It comes from me spending five years working on Anime Insider magazine. The “love” part is obvious, as I have an anime tattoo and count Urusei Yatsura and FLCL among my favorite TV shows ever. The “hate” stems from having to watch a lot of crap during my tenure as editor. That means I often appreciate it when anime gets called out. Which is why this video made me laugh and laugh and laugh.
Footage from 93 different series intros was used, which should give non-anime fans an indication how brilliant this thing is. You can see the full list here. Thanks to Norad93 for the tip. (Via Japanator)
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.